Small entities with large impact: Microcalcifications and atherosclerotic plaque vulnerability

Current Opinion in Lipidology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 327-332

  Hutcheson, Joshua D ^a   Maldonado, Natalia ^a   Aikawa, Elena ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Microcalcification; Plaque rupture; Vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CALCIFICATION; HUMAN; MICROCALCIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CALCINOSIS; COMPLICATION; METABOLISM; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATHOLOGY; STROKE;

CALCINOSIS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; STROKE;

EID: 84918798404     PISSN: 09579672     EISSN: 14736535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOL.0000000000000105     Document Type: Review

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